It's events like this that makes me miss Reagan. He would've come out straightaway and declared the perpatrators terrorists. Then he would've given them a cake shaped like a key and a bunch of Stinger missiles.

For the past six months I've been putting large signs on freeways along the west coast that read "Ecopocalypse Now" and "Wake Up and Smell the Permafrost". For me, the thawing of all the ancient plant and animal matter frozen in the tundra and the methane/CO2 it'll release once it really starts to cook - that to me is "Game Over" for the planet as we know it.

It's amazed me over the years that more people haven't taken up freeway signposting as a way of speaking out about the causes they care about. It's cheap, easy, incredibly fun to do and just as illegal as putting up flags on overpasses, which, if you'll remember, was quite popular in the weeks after 9/11. If nothing else, it gives a sense to large numbers of people (literally millions of them, if you do it right) that things are not entirely normal, and for the last decade or so I think a sense of normalcy is one of the things we can least afford. (Also, it's sent enough motorists to Google "Wake up and Smell the Permafrost" to make it the top suggestion at "Wake up a..." - at least on the west coast.)

Perhaps when things get worse more people will be inclined to speak out on these things, but until then I'm looking for a catchy slogan or two concerning the Albedo Effect.

up and down the west coast. It's incredibly easy, fun, and, until some court declares otherwise, entirely protected by the First Amendment. Even though I drive a Prius, it'd make more sense for locals to start doing this.